This episode, I'll be reading the ninth chapter, Linen, from my non-fiction manuscript, F*ck Bubble, to my friend and former neighbor, Dayna, in Pasadena, California.


Linen is about the past and the future merging beneath a bold Western sky. My having met Gunner on Grindr in the wilds of Utah, Mack doesn't skip a beat, making his presence known. But my thoughts are elsewhere: I can't help but to look back to my high school years out west, to a fellow student with whom I was so in love. 


I met Dayna, an outspoken native Angeleno who grew up during the sixties and seventies,  in 2016 when we became neighbors in Pasadena. By then she had already been sober for decades. 


In addition to the reading, I ruminate on Taylor Swift's beach house as being a metaphor for modern American life (and myth) both past and present, and Dayna shares the story of her own recent voyage into the deep and blurry past. 


You can find out more about F*ck Bubble and my other creative projects on my website,  http://brianpearson.net/writings. 


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